Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1cd95ce96dfd431…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.0 KB
MD5: 052b4c80c9a01a9408da4679e767cc93 SHA-1: cc41fa95e020a23853415682439fdcb3fda12e4f SHA-256: a1cd95ce96dfd431e29b0a4ff4e732b47bad8b77901051cc6d772affcb476ad9
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) elements, which are known to be vulnerable to script execution. Heuristics indicate the presence of risky executable scripts and a stager designed to evaluate numeric expressions, commonly used to obfuscate malicious code. ClamAV detection as 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain, potentially used to download additional malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-30 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Js.Exploit.HTML-30
  • XFA numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/